Departure Date: This tour starts at Lhasa every Tuesday and Saturday from March to November in 2010.
Tour Type: Land tour + well selected hotel + private airport/train station transfers and scheduled coach sightseeing with shared guide and driver in the cities
Day 1
Place & Transport: Arrive in Lhasa, Flight not included
Today’s Activities: Airport to Hotel Transfer (Lhasa)
Day 2
Place & Transport: Lhasa
Today’s Activities: Potala Palace, Sera Monastery
Meals: Breakfast, Chinese Lunch
- Potala Palace: Former winter home of the Dalai Lama, a vast, awe-inspiring maze of corridors and stairs leading through countless rooms of richly decorated statues, tombs, murals and antiques. You will climb past the White Palace into the Red Palace, where the file of pilgrims offering silk scarves, coins or yak butter to burn in the shrines combine to make this an unforgettable experience. Note: you need to be fit for the long stairways.
- Sera Monastery: It is known as one of the three greatest monasteries of Tibet. As one of the three main monasteries of Lhasa, it is here that the monks “famous daily debates” take place.
Potala Palace
Potala Palace
Day 3
Place & Transport: Lhasa
Today’s Activities: Jokhang Temple, Norbulingka
Meals: Breakfast, Chinese Lunch
- Jokhang Temple: Smaller and more manageable than the Potala, this 4-storey, golden-roofed temple is at the heart of a rich and living Tibetan Buddhism. Many locals pray here regularly; the Temple is surrounded by Barkhor Street and thronged with pilgrims and visitors. Yak butter lamps burn in front of rich statuary that includes the Sakyamuni Buddha brought to Tibet by Princess Wen Cheng in the 7th Century.
- Norbulingka: Norbulingka means “Jeweled Garden”. It was constructed as a summer palace for the Dalai Lama and later served the whole governmental administration.
Jokhang Temple
Jokhang Temple
Day 4
Place & Transport: Depart Lhasa, Flight not included
Today’s Activities: Hotel to airport Transfer (Lhasa
